AP reports: "Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, in an unprecedented public acknowledgment, called continued Israeli construction in West Bank settlements a breach of Israel's obligations under a recently revived peace plan."
Comment: Right, Israel's building projects are the problem. No, it doesn't really matter, there will be no real peace agreement until the Palestinians are allowed to have their civil war. Why? See the following:
Meshaal offers Abbas talks, holds to armed struggle - Yahoo! News
AP reports: "Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal called on Friday for unconditional talks with the rival Fatah faction to halt violence between Palestinians but vowed to keep up the Islamist group's armed struggle against Israel. [...] 'We can manage the conflict with Israel together, without dropping the option of resistance.'"
Comment: So, you see, Hamas is not interested in peace, they are interested in maintaining and managing perpetual conflict against Israel. Their solution to the political division of the Palestinians is to maintain the status quo of the national split personality, one side that pursues peace with Israel while at the same time the other side of their split personality seeks to destroy Israel, while all the while each side claiming not to be able to control the other. This split-personality strategy should actually be much more effective now that each side is represented by real factions rather than being represented by one person, as in the days of Yasser Arafat. Arafat talked peace to the international media and talked war to his own people in speeches seldom translated for Western audiences to hear. He always told his people that any agreements he entered into with Israel were deceptive temporary agreements (hudna) meant to allow them to continue to advance toward their ultimate goal, the destruction of Israel. This has not changed. The majority of Palestinians voted for Hamas and not Fatah, and it was their electoral victory which precipitated the current political crisis. Fortunately, the international climate is such that world powers can back Fatah while pretending that Hamas does not exist. Unfortunately, backing Fatah is not enough, soon the world powers will be forced to acknowledge that only the destruction of Hamas will put Israel and the Palestinians back on the same road map to peace.
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